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Environmental Remediation Veterans Join TerraTherm Management Team
TerraTherm (USA), a rapidly growing provider of environmental remediation services and technologies, announces that it has added accomplished industry veterans Prakash Acharya and Philip Theriault to its management team as part of its continuing growth strategy. As Engineering Department Manager, Acharya is responsible for TerraTherm’s process, detailed engineering, regulatory and permitting efforts. In the role of Field Operations Manager, Theriault will oversee construction and operations of U...
Mobile Thermal Soil Remediation
World leaders in Mobile, Thermal Soil Remediation, Nelson Environmental Remediation, Ltd. (“NER”, www.ner.ab.ca, continues a strong year of soil remediation services, capturing two new projects in Canada, set to begin in late-2010 / early-2011. “We are very pleased with the prospects for our services in Canada, Europe, the United States and Asia, after what has been a marketing and business development-intensive year for us”, said Darryl Nelson, President & CEO of NER. “We are positioned to fini...
High Demand in US and EU for In Situ Thermal Remediation in 2011
TerraTherm (USA), a rapidly growing provider of environmental remediation services and technologies, is expanding both North American operations and a key licensing partnership in the European Union to accommodate surging adoption of their technologies. The company also announced that it anticipates completion of their 60th ISTD site sometime in 2011. Fifty-nine sites on five continents have been remediated with TerraTherm’s In Situ Thermal Desorption (ISTD) technology and numerous projec...
Standard Helps Bring ‘Brownfield’ Land Back Into Use
Disused and potentially contaminated land, or ‘Brownfield’ land as it’s sometimes called, is a long-standing headache for many communities in the UK the British Standards Institution (BSI) reports. Under the Environmental Protection Act, regulators are mandated to assess and make safe any contaminated land that could potentially pose risks to human health, the environment, waters and buildings. In an ideal world that would mean investigating and cleaning up every potentially contaminated...
Bright Future for West Yorkshire as Sustainable Clean Up of Chemical Works Gets Underway
Aeternum (UK), the developer that owns the former Hickson Chemical Works in Castleford, West Yorkshire (UK), are awaiting the findings of an expert industry group as it nears the end of a £1.2 million trial to look at techniques to clean up residual contamination left behind on parts of the site by nearly a century of chemical industry. This is the latest phase in the clean-up and sustainable regeneration of the site by the Aeternum team, who have already been working closely with Wakefield Coun...
UK Soil Association laments pig farm plans
The UK Soil Association has called for plans to build a giant pig farm in the Midlands to be put on hold, after it raised fears over potential air and soil pollution. Midland Pig Producers wants to build a "mega" pig farm in Foston in Derbyshire, which will be capable of housing up to 25,000 of the animals. However, representatives of the Soil Association have highlighted a new study conducted by the Health Protection Association (HPA), which indicated that people living in the vicinity of the...
Research highlights nuclear soil pollution in Japan
Some farmers in Japan are unable to safely cultivate their land due to soil pollution caused by the atomic disaster in Fukushima earlier this year. A radiation leak was recorded at the nuclear power plant following a huge earthquake and resultant tsunami. Now a team of researchers have warned that food grown in some nearby regions will be blighted by high levels of caesium found in the soil, the Associated Press reports. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
China blighted by soil pollution, figures show
Chinese farmers are fighting a continuous battle against soil pollution, it has been suggested. A report published in the Southern Metropolis Daily has indicated that ten per cent of agricultural land in the Asian country is blighted by contaminated water. As a result, many soil samples have been found to contain excessive levels of heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury. This has placed whole villages in danger of poisoning. "Heavy metal pollution incidents have occurred repeatedly in r...